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Former executive Director Kenneth Roth speaking at the 44th Munich Security Conference 2008
Kenneth Roth and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, February 2, 2012
Israeli apartheid is a system of institutionalized segregation and discrimination in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and to a lesser extent in Israel proper. This system is characterized
A Palestinian child sitting on a roadblock at Al-Shuhada Street within the Old City of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank (2013). Palestinians have given the street the moniker "Apartheid Street" because it is closed to Palestinian traffic and open only to Israeli settlers and tourists.
The barrier, called an "apartheid wall" by pro-Palestinian groups, "a security fence" by Israel
Huwwara Checkpoint, one of many Israeli checkpoints and closures (dismantled 2011) that restricted the movement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and have been compared to the apartheid pass laws
Palestinian children walk to their kindergarten, separated from the paved path reserved for Israeli settlers.